Manifolding account device.



No. 696,584. Patented Apr. 1, I902.

C. URMSBY.

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COLLIS ORMSBY, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

MANIFOLDING ACCOUNT DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 696,584, dated April 1,1902.

Application filed March 18,1901. Serial No. 51,681. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, CoLLIs ORMSBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the State of Kentucky, haveinvented a certain new and useful Manifolding Account Device,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the art of accounting; and it consists,primarily,in the construction of certain sets of files and two sets of tablets designed'to fit together for simultaneous entry in duplicate, so that both sides of the paper may be used on one of the tablets, which also may be readily removed from the file, while the other remains in place, and other features hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a-plan view of the file with the merchants ac count-book thereon. Fig. II shows the customers account-book. Fig. III isaperspec tive View of the two books fitted together, showing also the carbon copy-paper. Figs. IV and V are enlarged perspective views of the form of fastenings preferred.

In the ordinary method of keeping accounts with credit customers the items of a purchase are written in the customers pass-book, copied in a day-book orjournal,and thence posted in a large ledger kept for all customers. In a device designed to avoid the possibility of errors in entry, and also to simplify the operations by providing for each customer a passbook and alsoaseparate account-book for each customer to be kept by the merchant, I have made certain improvements to facilitate entries being made in the two books at one operation. Each of the merchants books or tablets is on a separate file, and I use an ordinary cabinet to keep these files in regular order for instant reference and use.

A suitable solid base a is provided, upon which are fixed a pair of posts 0 at each end for holding the carbon-oopy-paper base and the customers book and also a pair of posts (Z at the side, set in line at right angles to the first pair for holding the leaves of the merchants'tablet. This latter may be a sewed booklet, or it may consist of loose leaves. It is punched with proper holes registering with posts (Z and may be removed by taking out the rod 0, which holds it loosely in place. The posts (I may be split and notched on the inside, so that the rod is held securely in place in the ordinary use of the tablet, but is removable when desired. The posts c,provided at either end, are split throughout their length, save just at the top, where they are joined together. A stiff card j, carrying the carbon copy-paper 7L pasted on its side, is perforated with holes registering with posts 0, and a thin rod on runs through the slit in said posts and is stuck'through the card j, so that while the latter may be raised and lowered freely it may not leave the posts. The customers tablet f is stitched across the top and perforated with holes 9 to fit on the posts 0. Then this is in place under the first blank leaf of the merchants tablet, it rests on the cardj, and the carbon copy-paper is placed on top of its first blank leaf and under the leaf of the merchants tablet. When the entry is written on the latter, then a facsimile of it is copied on the customers tablet in the proper place. Both accounts are thus kept each in a separate book in regular order and are necessarily duplicates of one another. The merchan'ts-tablet leaves remain on the file until all used, and the number of pages may be the same as in the customers book, or else they may be twice as many, and the customers book may then be written on both sides of the sheets by simply placing the said book on the posts at the opposite end of the file, as will be evident.

. It sometimes occurs that a customer leaves his pass-book behind. In this case the carbon-paper rests on its base-card and the entry is made just as usual. WVhen the pass-book is next seen, a blank space will appear therein, and it may then be filled by copying from the original entry.

The particular fastenings used are immaterial to my invention; but I prefer the forms shown at Figs. IV and V. The posts cl for holding the file-leaves are split and notched, as shown. The rod 6 is held thereby at any desired elevation to allow the leaves 7) free play without coming off. The posts n, being split, allow free play for the card j, carrying the carbon-paper h and the rod or pin m, and prevent it from leaving the posts. It is evident that the earbon-paper may be easily removed and a new sheet substituted by with-- drawing the pin m.

cases there is great difficulty to assort the slips, and, furthermore, there is no fixed order of entering the items so they will occur alike on both accounts and no check in case of failure to enter on either account. Since both the items as entered and the order of entry are duplicates in my system, any possibility of disagreement is avoided,and the daily journal of sales forms at once also an indi vidual ledger already posted.

Having thus described my invention and its use, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1. The combination in an accounting device,of a rigid file-base having two sets of posts set in lines at right angles to each other, a merchants file-book detachably retained on one of said sets of posts, a removable customers book with perforations fitting over the other of the sets of posts so as to interfold with the other book, and a card carrying a sheet of carbon-paper attached at one side and held to loosely slide on the latter posts, the carbon-paper interfolding with the books so that the writing on the merchants file-book may be copied in facsimile in the removable customers book.

2. The combination of a set of customers pass-books perforated at one end, with a set of files carrying each a merchants book removably fastened on a set of posts, said file having a set of posts in aline at right angles to the first set to support the customers book and loosely carrying a card having a carbonsheet attached at one side thereof, for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of a pass-book perforated at one end, a file carrying a book removably held on posts at one side thereof, and having at each end a pair of slitted posts either pair of which may hold the pass-book loosely in place and acard looselyfastened to slide on one pair of said end posts, held thereon by a pin and having a carbon-sheet interfolding with the leaves of the said books.

4:. An accounttablet comprising a base having at each end a pair of slitted posts and at one side a pair of posts split and notched inside, a book perforated at the side to re ister with said posts, means for holding said book in place, and a card carrying a sheet of carbon-paper and having holes registering with either of the two sets of end posts and held loosely thereon by a pin playing freely in the slits thereof.

5. In an accounting device a file comprising a base having a set of end posts split to allow free play of a pin therein, a second set placed in line at right angles to the first set and slotted and notched on the inside to hold a rod therein at different elevations, in combination with a card carrying a sheetof carbon-paper and perforated and fitting on the said end posts of the file-base and held loosely thereon by a pin, as described.

In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set my name in the presence of the two subscribed witnesses.

COLLIS ORMSBY.

Witnesses:

SWAGAR 'SHERLEY, W. M. SWIEBLE. 

